What does injury mean?
Definitions for injury
ˈɪn dʒə riin·ju·ry
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word injury.
Princeton's WordNet
injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
injury, accidental injurynoun
an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
wound, injury, combat injurynoun
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
injurynoun
an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage
injurynoun
wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted
Wiktionary
injurynoun
Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.
injuryverb
To wrong, to injure.
Etymology: From injurie, from iniuria, from in- + ius.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
INJURYnoun
Etymology: injuria, Lat. injure, Fr.
The town of Bouline, and other places, were acquired by just title of victory; and therefore in keeping of them no injury was offered. John Hayward.
Riot ascends above their loftiest tow'rs,
And injury and outrage. John Milton.Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling upon trifling arguments. Isaac Watts, Logick.
Great injuries such vermin as mice and rats do in the fields. John Mortimer.
Casting off the respects fit to be continued between great kings, he fell to bitter invectives against the French king; and, by how much he was the less able to do, talking so much the more, spake all the injuries he could devise of Charles. Francis Bacon.
Webster Dictionary
Injuryadjective
any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character
Freebase
Injury
Injury is damage to a biological organism which can be classified on various bases.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
injury
A term comprising such conditions as fractures, wounds, sprains, strains, dislocations, concussions, and compressions. In addition, it includes conditions resulting from extremes of temperature or prolonged exposure. Acute poisonings (except those due to contaminated food) resulting from exposure to a toxic or poisonous substance are also classed as injuries. See also casualty; wounded. inland petroleum distribution system
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'injury' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2200
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'injury' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3851
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'injury' in Nouns Frequency: #655
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of injury in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of injury in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of injury in a Sentence
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
When you add in those who are quarantined through contact tracing as a result of those positives in addition to a handful of players on the non-Covid injury list, it gives the Gators less than 50 scholarship players available currently.
First and foremost, the most common injury associated with an animal is not actually a bear or alligator, bottom line, it's actually things much smaller.
We typically think of traumatic brain injury as something that happens when an external force comes against your skull.
While death and injury tolls continue to rise, steps taken so far will remain hollow if not completed. The people must be served and protected, not violently oppressed.
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- wondAfrikaans
- جرح, إصابةArabic
- korlanma, zərərAzerbaijani
- яра, йәрәхәтBashkir
- пашкоджанне, рана, траўмаBelarusian
- щетаBulgarian
- feridaCatalan, Valencian
- urážka, zranění, úrazCzech
- cam, anafiad, sarhad, anap, camwy, anaf, niwedWelsh
- sårDanish
- Verwundung, Verletzung, WundeGerman
- ζημίαGreek
- vundoEsperanto
- herida, lesiónSpanish
- vigastusEstonian
- آسیبPersian
- vamma, loukkaantuminenFinnish
- sárFaroese
- blessureFrench
- wûneWestern Frisian
- gortúIrish
- cron, ciùrradhScottish Gaelic
- פְּצִיעָהHebrew
- चोटHindi
- blesiHaitian Creole
- sérülésHungarian
- վնասArmenian
- cedera, lukaIndonesian
- sárIcelandic
- ferita, danno, lesioneItalian
- 負傷, 傷害Japanese
- დაშავებაGeorgian
- жараKazakh
- 상해, 부상, 負傷Korean
- برینKurdish
- vulnus, plagaLatin
- žalaLithuanian
- pārestībaLatvian
- wharatanga, wharangaMāori
- повредаMacedonian
- хорMongolian
- kecederaanMalay
- verwonding, letselDutch
- skadeNorwegian
- szkoda, uraz, kontuzjaPolish
- danoPortuguese
- ranăRomanian
- повреждение, ранение, травма, ранаRussian
- povrjeda, рана, rana, озледа, ozleda, повреда, povreda, поврједа, ozljeda, озљедаSerbo-Croatian
- urážkaSlovak
- poškodbaSlovene
- lëndimAlbanian
- skadaSwedish
- jeraha, jiraha, afaSwahili
- อันตรายThai
- kapinsalaanTagalog
- zararTurkish
- рана, пошкодження, травмаUkrainian
- چوٹUrdu
- làm hại, bị thươngVietnamese
- שאָדן, וווּנדYiddish
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